HIS 108 Chapter Notes - Chapter 55: Nullification Crisis

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 108
• Professor: Jane Calvert

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~ excerpts from south carolina exposition and protest ~ It imposes on the agricultural interest of the south, including the. Southwest, and that portion of the country particularly engaged in commerce and navigation, the burden not only of sustaining the system itself, but that also of the. The act of congress of the last session, with the whole system of legislation imposing public virtue and destroy the liberty of the country . It is true that the third section of the first article of the constitution authorizes congress to prohibitory duties. The constitution grants to congress the power of imposing a duty on imports for revenue, one section of the country on the ruins of another. So partial are the effects of the system, that its burdens are exclusively on one side and its. The duty on imports, which is mainly paid out of labor, gives them the means of selling to us at a higher price .